Nintendo should’ve done this as a first party service. Great when the hacking and home brew community is leading the way.

Wouldve been cool if they made a super cheap small portable console based off of the game and watches, even if it was just about as powerful as a nes, but had a lot of games and support for third party, basically what the playdate is doing.

I think their classic mini consoles were a response to the raspberry pi community.

@BetaTester704 seems like a classic "me and my alts supporting my argument" case

@BetaTester704 alright, go get one and prove it

@BetaTester704 damn you must be a really fun friend

@Ithaca comments a week old. Your late. No longer relevant Dont care.

@RosesBubble nintendo released a public kit for coding on the NES called Family BASIC.  Sega and Sony all did this at some point as well. It's not a forgien idea really.

@RosesBubble Litterly ever video ive seen on the game and watch about hacking it has been to enable feature it should have.<br>They dont support theft. Which is how you acquire roms. Thats one of the reasons why they removed them.

@RosesBubble Litterly ever video ive seen on the game and watch about hacking it has been to enable feature it should have.
They dont support theft. Which is how you acquire roms. Thats one of the reasons why they removed them.

@BetaTester704 of course they don't support hacking their devices?? It's dangerous if done in a malicious way and would ruin their reputation<br>Use your head once please

@BetaTester704 of course they don't support hacking their devices?? It's dangerous if done in a malicious way and would ruin their reputation
Use your head once please

@rokko a how to, would be awesome. Great idea. An alarm with those sounds.

Cuckoo! If I get the chance I’ll put some of your tunes on my game and watch :D


This would be the deluxe game & watch all of us been waiting for.

@ChiNo Ar Sure, I means after the flash was upgraded (as mentioned in the video). May still be too much data to fit in, but there's a better chance.

That would be cool.<br>But to a STM32 Mame port you would need additional space for Rom and Artwork. Guess the 1MB flash will fill up quite fast. :)

That would be cool.
But to a STM32 Mame port you would need additional space for Rom and Artwork. Guess the 1MB flash will fill up quite fast. :)

@blahdelablah That you "pointed out" the obvious fact that Nintendo doesnt want to make their hardware easily hackable, duuuuhhh, of course they dont.

@Stephen Digs History You're annoyed that I pointed out why the specs are limited? Whatever floats your boat man, I'm sure you'll find plenty to be annoyed at on the Internet, have fun.

@blahdelablah Your commercials are annoying, thanks Captain Obvious

@viscountalpha Why would Nintendo want to make it easier to mod? It's not in their interests to do so, Nintendo are interested in making the most money possible not building a platform for hardware hacking.

It should have had a larger rom chip. They didn't have to make it hard for us to mod.

I believe MAME can emulate all the Game & Watch games, I wonder if it would be possible to port a cut-down version of MAME that just ran these games.


Definitely interested in the USB mods. Having to open, rewire and close the device every time to re-flash it seems like a major hassle.

@kbeckmann Hmm. Emulating 1.5 Mbps slow speed USB using general purpose IO pins is trivial, and even 12 Mbps is not impossible, so you could make homebrew that properly communicates with a PC host using USB. Anyone up to the task?

I wonder if someone could make a mod-chip-like type device (possibly a solderless design) that installs relatively easily, implements the basic USB data protocol, and possibly increases the storage capacity? I'd probably buy one, particularly if it avoided the need to buy an STM32 (or similar) development board.

If you don't mind soldering fine pitch wires, you can connect the D+/D- wires from the connector to the SWDIO/CLK pins and then use a USB-C breakout board to connect to the pins from the outside. It has been done and works quite well. However, it would probably be a bad idea to connect that to a proper USB Host.


Can't wait for this to be refined and made more accessible!

Retrace is complete. Schematic is ~90%, probably done tomorrow.
https://github.com/Upcycle-Electronics/game-and-watch-hardware

can’t wait for the game and watch itself to be made more accessible

Id love to play game boy games on mine...

@Apache Raider yes and it natively support the Nintendo consoles which are the main consoles people emulate...

@Airsh Bornely I was gonna be about doing Mario 3 on it, but I think I'm with you and I'd want as many Game and Watch games (that were originally one screen) as I could get on it, (since this is designed to be an homage to G&W) then if there's enough room, add Mario 3 lol

@J Bentham bro, you rockin' the new anbernic!?

@Alberto Saldivar  I just got a 3ds xl and after hacking it wow I can't believe the library even though I have a vita but the DS library is huge.

@J Bentham why get an anbernic handheld when you can get an new 2ds for the same price and play more games and better quality emulation.

@Will Thompson Totally my opinion. I would so love to play Tetris, River City Ransom and NES World Cup on an original small Nintendo Handheld which isnt as huge as my switch <3

@J Bentham it's just because of the novelty of it being an official Nintendo product. Also the game and watch is more compact I believe which some people might be looking for.

Why bother waiting for a nes rom on a poor quality screen when you can get anbernic handheld

@Airsh Bornely I believe the biggest problem is that the data cables from the usb has been cut, it can be used only for charging, so you won't ever be able to add anything just by using USB

@Mr. Peanut yep ... soon to be discontinued. For sure!

Yeah. I really just want to play Game & Watch games and maybe some NES if there's enough room.


Nintendo: Here is our latest gaming console.<br>Internet: Ahem. Our homebrew device.

Nintendo: Here is our latest gaming console.
Internet: Ahem. Our homebrew device.

Seeing as they made the JTAG/SWD lines available on the board, they probably knew this would happen and more or less approved. The NES and SNES minis were also pretty easy to hack.


The degree of difficulty involved with this mod will rule out 90% of people. But still fascinating to see!

The difficulty is what makes me wanna try it...

@AJ The Switch and PS4 and hell almost the PS5 got day one hacks. A little thing with no security at all should have been a field day for hackers if the damn USB data connection wasn't severed.

Bro it just came out fucking chill do you really expect a full hack the same fuckin day lmfaoooooooo


Amazing. I can't believe the speed and success you guys have had with this system. Keep up the great work!


Can't wait for someone to homebrew the entire game n watch library onto these, making it the way it should've been in the first place. :)


Extremely interesting to see what goes on behind the scenes of console "hacking"


So much progress in so little time! Great job! keep it up!


Very cool stuff. Thanks to you and Konrad for all the hard work in bringing this forward more and more.


You've got me thinking about buying one, now.  There's clearly a lot of potential here.

@Obscure Games The last couple times I was at the local Walmart there were a bunch of them just chilling on the shelf.

Shouldn't be too hard to find in America though.

Already hard to find in the Netherlands. Good luck!


I'm loving all the progress that's being made!  I'm curious about SMB3 not filling the screen does the built in games use a different pixel size?


Excited to see these new hardware hacks. i bought 2 units just for this reason!

Yes, hopefully someone is able to do the hardware mod for me. It is going to be great. Already played more Super Mario in the last for weeks then in the 34 years before!

@VSMOKE ah, looks like i pegged you wrong. My bad man

@Roberto Taveras I like doing stuff like this too chill am lol at myself because I know that if I did hack this I probably wouldn't play the games👌

@VSMOKE probably not but some of us have fun doing stuff like this. Where's the crime in that?

be honest you know you will never play a single game on this😂😂😂

@Ramon Matos yeah we know we can get those. But there's just this magic and thrill that comes with hacking Nintendo consoles that makes it worth it over something like those portable emulation devices

@Ziggybam Murphy1 Lol. I only have one, but I am keeping the box because of the art. The hardware is limited also, so that's another reason why I'd rather get a Gameboy Advanced to mod. 😅

I got 3 😂 one to play one to do this and one to keep boxed

@Dennis McDonald Yeah, I think my mom about a decade & a half ago sold mine in a garage sale along with at least a 100 Gameboy games. Were sad times. 😔

@megamanx Lol,I still have my dead mint Game Boy SP NES edition! Never parting with it. <3

I like it too much to want to open it up, but an original Gameboy Advanced however would be great! Especially the Gameboy Advanced SP NES Edition! 😃


Very well done sir, this is amazing progress in such a short space of time.


This series is so interesting!!! Makes me want to pick up one

No time like the present. These things are NOT going to get any cheaper...


Great work and so well explained. This is the kind of work we need on YT 👍 👏👏👏


Perfect timing, I have just recently started learning programming STM32 microcontrollers! Your videos are super interesting, I think that seeing how some hardware works in real life helps to understand it better


Wow, you're good at hacking, communicating, AND video editing?  I don't think I've ever seen a modding tutorial that was this good.  The transparent terminal overlay was a nice touch!


I wonder if by now someone could start a Game & Watch Super mario emulator/simulator (not the g&w core for retroarch) for other platforms. Would be great if this can be ported to a Nintendo Switch.<br>Keep up the good work!

I wonder if by now someone could start a Game & Watch Super mario emulator/simulator (not the g&w core for retroarch) for other platforms. Would be great if this can be ported to a Nintendo Switch.
Keep up the good work!


You deserve much more recognition. Watching your videos is making me wish I was good at reverse engineering and stuff.


This is why I bought one of these last week.  I knew it was only a matter of time.  Excellent work!


Hopefully someone can make a tutorial on setting up a development environment for this. While I'm not that new to programing, there do seem to be a few steps to get everything to work correctly before you can start writing a program. <br>Great work btw! Cant wait to see what more comes of this.

Hopefully someone can make a tutorial on setting up a development environment for this. While I'm not that new to programing, there do seem to be a few steps to get everything to work correctly before you can start writing a program.
Great work btw! Cant wait to see what more comes of this.


Wow, I genuinely didn’t expect modding on this thing to be very successful, much less this fast. This is exciting, I can’t wait to be able to play GameBoy games on this.


So happy you're pioneering this development process!!! Not sure how comparable/possible this would be, but if this could eventually become as accessible as setting up CFW on the SNES Mini I'd be psyched!!!


wow~ making so much progress within this short period of time. Can't wait to see more fun stuffs running on this tiny device.


Thanks for continuing to work on this. I looked at the Doom project, but there was no info on actually writing it to the hardware, so I'm looking forward to being able to reprogram my game and watch soon!


I love the progress made so far! I look forward to giving this a go on mine


I was wondering if  memory expansion would be possible. Excellent progress 👍🏾


I think in a way nintendo gave us an unintentional gift by how niche and difficult this little guy is too crack. I think that alone will form a very unique community and homebrew will be so epic and heartfelt


Really impressive work i must say, thanks for sharing! (づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ ♥


Dude, will you ever stop?! This is amazing! What talent!


Thank you for mentioning that you can separate that part of the Nucleo board and use that for programming! I just happened to have one laying around that I haven't used.


Is it possible to take advantage of the original "emulator"? Perhaps replace the 3 games with 3 new ones?

@Eloise Cole if it was possible to install the 3 US mario releases onto it, it would keep with the aesthetic. People might even make Tetris, castlevania, metroid shells etc (paint additional units).

I wish a could replace the lost level with smb3 !!

@lass kinn i agree, you mean the bank switching? so no smb3 or castlevania for example?

I had the same thought. I saw on another video that SMB was running on an emulator, you can tell by how it pauses.


You do some epic work good sir!  I’ve designed a slide over protective case and stand for it too...  if you’re interested, I’ll stuff one in the post for you!


Great video. Would be good to see a port a G&W emulator  to give this an authentic old school GW feel


Good progress, thanks for sharing the journey!


Its nice to watch the progress of a console homebrew scene develop rather than trying to rebuild the history in retrospect.

Yeah, I kinda wanna see how future videos about "how the game and watch was homebrewed before it launched" will look like, in 5 or so years


Awesome, I'm hoping it will one day be possible to put all of the G&W library on there!


this video is super concise and informative, it is frankly a breath of fresh air on youtube.

keep up the good work


Fantastic work! great video! keep up the awesome work!


I love watching you and Konrad hacking the life out off (in to?) this :D


I'm looking forward to this becoming end-user ready with some simple modifications. My wish for Game & Watch hacking is modest. I just want to add a small number of other NES roms to it. Megaman 2, Punch-Out, Zelda, Mario 3. That kind of thing.


As said on Twitter, I'm really really (did I said really?) excited about this! Mainly regarding The legend of Zelda game + the save-game & standby implementation...
Those Game & Watch were part of my childhood... but missed the Zelda game (as I was more a Sega Master System, then got both MegaDrive & SNES, and unfortunatly "lost" the NES Zelda game...)

One question: why implement a NES (or GB) emulator (which should be really great, of course!), rather than give user some "script(s)" to patch NES images/homebrew & flash into the device?
I guess have part of the response: bcs It's fun to do this... and... should be difficult to implement the patch, rather having an emulator that that may already handle direcly roms & key-mapping & Save "memory/state" options?!

Nevertheless, already bought a backup G&W (!) to perform my own tests (1st one is for (my) Christmas, still waiting to open it)...
Unfortunatly, I'm not confident regarding possible soldering & electrinic parts, nevertheless, should handle if needed... Just holding my next steps (USB access via soldering cables, or possibily buying a Nucleo link device as advised), waiting to, as you said, possible progress regarding implementation & connectivity & how to doc. (so far Linux scripts are not a huge pb to me).

Keep on following you & beckmanns & ...!


Wow your work is amazing!! After the hardware mod, do you think it would be possible to dump the miniNES hacked launcher/emulator on this device including every NES rom? Just like they did to the miniNES.


Thank you so much for working on this!!!! Love it!


I am expecting you or someone else to talk about the Game & Watch at this year's c3.<br>This project fits the theme of a c3 potentially more than any other console before.

I am expecting you or someone else to talk about the Game & Watch at this year's c3.
This project fits the theme of a c3 potentially more than any other console before.


You're really about to turn me onto programming with these videos. You keep it up with these videos and you might. Stay dangerous.


Very good job! It's a shame it won't work by using only USB. Anyway, awesome work, keep it up


Wow, this is pretty amazing.  As someone who has never hacked anything, I only wonder how I can get my game and watch to do amazing stuff. :P


this is basically proof of concept for a modchip (or something more 2020 like ;)
amazing work and acomplished incredibly fast!!
congrats!


This is dotally tope! I can't wait! I just want a handful of games on the system. Thank you for your hard work! Amazing!


This guy just keeps going!<br>I love it!!!♥

This guy just keeps going!
I love it!!!♥


I want to add the Game & Watch Gallery collections from the GBC. That would make this device perfect for me so I hope more solid homebrews comes later!


Great stuff!  I hope someone makes a port of the original Game & Watch game, Fire.  That's what I want on mine


I really hope this gets refined as time goes on. If I could play the Game & Watch Gallery games on this, full screen, that's a huge value.


Wow, Contra!  I'll definitely want to mod my G&W 😁👍


Nice, fingers crossed it keeps getting easier for mere mortals like me.


I like how script 4 says "Are you ready(yes or yes)" :D Great work! I wish i had a knowledge to do something similar or help out.


I'd love to see Little Sound DJ or Nanoloop on there! =)


Great news! I'm interested in helping out with the development. I'll check out all repositories and available info


This just needs to be a NES and Game Boy emulator, would be perfect like that


Thank you.
It's good to see work on things like this.
Funny how people have already got the new xboxplaying PS2 games.


Thank you for the Hello World Project! I'm new to electronics and IC dev, this is an amazing resources for the new student! Danke! Du bist ein wunderbarer Menschen!( I'm studying german for the past 5 months, sorry if this is grammatically incorrect).


omg this is super cool, I'd love to code somehomebrew on this... sure it'd be a "waste of time" but holy hooker would it be fun!

Ima try to get my hands on one and check out the links!


if we flash homebrew software, such as a custom emulators (nes/GB), could'nt we just ditch the SPI flash in favor of an SD Card?<br>and if so could even have a bootloader that loads update fw from the sdcard (like most 32bit 3d printer baords based on stm32 cpus), making the stlink a one time business?

if we flash homebrew software, such as a custom emulators (nes/GB), could'nt we just ditch the SPI flash in favor of an SD Card?
and if so could even have a bootloader that loads update fw from the sdcard (like most 32bit 3d printer baords based on stm32 cpus), making the stlink a one time business?


bruh, nintendo should make more of these. People are literally programming a ton of stuff into the console. I can't wait for an easier way to get my legend of zelda one homebrewed!


Awesome video although you were not very specific on the hardware required - do you have links/model numbers for the hardware tools needed. Also can this be done without soldering - I.e attaching those clips? Keep up the good work!

@stacksmashing thanks for replying - I found this Jlink device and the saleae clips but how do you connect the two? Might wait until this becomes a bit more accessible but enjoying your progress!!

It's linked in the description - and the video mentions it's possible with those clips :)


Awesome video. Looking forward to see where you take this.


More respect! Damn you guys are awesome!


I’m interested to see if anyone manages to get a game and watch emulator working on this 😉


I love love what is gaming watch is originally and love that you guys are making it even better


Perfect! I love the way that this Game And Watch is hacked haha!! Nice work pale!

If i can just say one things, you get too fast to explain the whole tutorial... Take your time to separate the parts. I can follow you but not all guys here are SuperTechnician. Don't misunderstand, it's not a negative advise, it's a constructive words.

See yah, best regards


Hacking this thing feels more important than the hacking of the NES/SNES Classics. These are Nintendo-made with good build quality, and might just end up being the best 'official' NES emulation machines out there (factoring in screen size, compactness, aesthetics). Good luck - keep it up!


Awesome keep up the good work. I want the one with Zelda😁👍.  Best regards from Sweden


Even more excited for this to be applicable for some of the ultra cheap Chinese devices with the same hardware on the market


Considering the device's hardware ability, I'm guessing it's limited to running NES, GB, GBC, sega masters, Game Gear, SG-1000, atari 2600-7200, that's still a few thousand games if you guys can increase the space requirements to a few Gigs.


You guys are making the Game and Watch what it should have been.


before: Its gonna be hard to get homebrew on the 2ds<br>Now: HOMEBREW ON THE GAME AND WATCH

before: Its gonna be hard to get homebrew on the 2ds
Now: HOMEBREW ON THE GAME AND WATCH


i would love this kind of videos for the switch hombrew dev i think switch stuff is like everywhere and there is kinda a lot of outdated data and fake data


Interesting and a great work, but for the moment is still too complicated for a simply usage.


Can't wait for the soldering instructions on getting the data port in the USP C port enabled


I love it, so awesome! Thanks for sharing...


I definately know that someone would do it... very excited for everything to come^^


I hope someone ports the GW-libretro game and watch simulator to this


You're doing the lord's work. Well done.


I would love to add nothing but a game and watch library for this little guy :)


I would love to try this.  I have really high end programmers and make my own ps1 mm3 chips. I'm going to buy the board listed.  Can anyone recommend good j-link and test clips on Amazon (preferably)?


I'm curious why the SMB game that comes with the device uses the entire screen, but your emulator seems to use a window of the screen.  I'm assuming the emulator is just doing a 1:1 rendering, so that begs the question what they did to SMB that is causing it to render to the entire LCD?

It's likely that Nintendo modified the original super mario bros rom to fit the aspect ratio of the game & watch.


The reason SMB3 has that glitch on the bottom at the title screen is do to timing cycles.

Thank you Sir!


So coooool ! I think I've found my christmas gift... The only thing missing is WiFi but it seems to have enough room for an ESP !


2D All-Stars and full Game and Watch collection would be sweet.


For the one with the pin header maybe it is a idea to add a small Micro switch to disable the battery?


Given the LCD is 320x240 Sega Genesis emulation would fit nicely. Mapping 3 button to the 2 main one available might be kludgy but a lot of games really only need 2. I know the STM chip has data lines for an SD card too. I wonder if along with a larger SPI flash we couldn’t also get limitless storage space and turn this into the ultimate portable device...


How hard would it be to write a Game and Watch emulator hosted on 64 bit PCs? Given how much you guys already know about the hardware, would that be feasible? Seems like it would be a good way for devs to test their programs quicker


Yeah, I'm loving this, a lot. But I'm wondering if it can be cloned...


As soon as a saw Mario Bros. 3, I lost it. It’s the one thing I think Nintendo should’ve included on the stock Game & Watch


I'd be excited if all G&W games become accessible. At least the one screen games.


Maybe possible to 3d print the back case with a port added so you don't have to take the device apart?


So for 60 dollars we got a NES classic with a pretty decent selection of games and an easy way to add more to your hearts content.
For 50 dollars you get a mobile version of Mario or Zelda and as a sweetener they tossed in a clock app.
Makes perfect sense to me.


Would be awesome if the game and watch emulator was working on this game and watch.


I was thinking it should be fairly easy to rewire that SPI flash chip for use with an SD card slot, maybe even use both if there's a spare pin that can be used for CS. I'm really wondering if it's worth trying to get my hands on one of these to implement... looks like Bestbuy is sold out though.


like others have said, let's get all the original G&W games running on this thing!


Why replace SPI flash with a bigger one ?

Just make:
- external pinout, like you did for SWD;
- small PCB for SPI Flash ROM;
- 3D printed case for SPI flash;

and now you have a cartridge for Game&Watch!!


If I was going to mod this, I’d want to fill it with actual Game & Watch roms.


It would be great a Game Boy Color emulator to add Game & Watch Vol 1, 2 & 3


Very cool! But I'm too dumb to do any of this stuff, so I'll wait until it's more accessible to hack mine.


This is WAY out of my league. Cool stuff though! 🤘


Looks like this might be my reason to open mine!


So I have an STLink V2 leftover from my 3D printer modifications, would it still work at programming the Game & Watch despite its disadvantages?

Yeah it should work. I've been using one of these and it's worked out quite well. It's a bit slow but that's fine. The reset issue is just inconvenient, not a problem. EDIT: If it's one of the clones, they may not always work 100% reliably, glitch, cause random issues. An official ST-Link is better, or use a J-Link Edu Mini.


How about hardware mod to connect to the usb-c port as a connection.

By the way.  Thank you for your  hard work!!!


Are there any plans for an SD Card mod? Ever since Ben Heck accidentally created an SD Card slot on the device it made me wonder if it's possible?


I have some game and watchs from 90s . Nice to know this . 👍👍🤤


Speaking of Linux, is there a distro that would work (and/or work well) on the G&W's limited hardware?

@stacksmashing Well, sure, it wouldn't be particularly useful, but "could you?" and "should you?" are two very different questions... Not that I'd be willing to do such a thing, personally. Thanks for the response.

As it’s an M7 it doesn’t have an MMU the only option would be uClinux, I don’t think it makes sense to port that 😀


Even if I could load up like 20 NES games and a handful of gameboy games I would be thrilled


I actually had a dream that someone would do this


Is it possible to add it as variant for ST core in Arduino IDE? <br>Or add SdCard instead of spi memory?

Is it possible to add it as variant for ST core in Arduino IDE?
Or add SdCard instead of spi memory?


I would like more details how the actual read out of the STM32 flash is done.


So my question is if you could load other mario-based games without having to flash an emulator on. For example, could I load the SMB1 romhack "Super Mario Bros Special for NES" over the top of Ball?


My goal is making a nintendo clock using the game and watch rom. I just think it would be neat.

@stacksmashing That might be outside my skills, But why not?

For sure, go for it! Also add an alarm clock please 🙂


This console will be hardware modded to the bone😀. Ad storage, ad external controller ports, ad HDMI-out, let’s do it, complete consolization😂😂😂🙏


I just want to see more G&W recreations on it, like Ball. :)

@Emmett Turner Oh, I meant is as a joke because ball is already on the system ;)

@dronesflier It comes with SMB, SMB2J, and a recreation of Ball. Rather than emulating a bunch of other games or porting Doom, I'd like to see recreations of other G&W games in the style of Ball, since this is styled after a Game & Watch, after all. ;) Who knows... they might even find that there are remnants of others hidden in the FW since it may have started out as a sort of "Game & Watch Classic Edition." If not, maybe the program that runs Ball is extensible and the format can be analyzed to quickly replicate other G&W games in a similar style without having to write code from scratch to replicate that look/style.


Would love to see "Super Mario Bros.: Peach Edition ROM hack" support. Would make a great mod for my daughter!


Yeah, I'm gonna appropriate my Game & Watch "the Famicom" with tons of Famicom ROMs 👍

Bruh a portable famicom/NES wouldve sold hot cakes if they kept selling the nes classic

@MαtiYT Popin (aka. Player523) there is a rom with only 7 grand dad so yeah I put it on my NES classic so  it should be able to be used on here


i think windows 10 users can use the windows subsystem for Linix which gives you linux capabilities under Widnows


Are there any pins in the charger that you can reroute the debug pins to?


what is the size of the flash memory in this?


I would love it if they found a way to just put all the nes Mario games on this & Game & watch games


I swear this thing will legit be running doom at full speed at one point, would be pretty poggies


This is the real smart watch you would want to carry on your wrist!


Would it be possible to replace the SPI flash with an SD card and access it in SPI mode?   then the contents could be easily interchanged/deployed in the future...


This is amazing work, but I am happy to keep it as it is.


truly delicious work people!!! serious skills 💪💪💪🍻🍻🍻


this PCB looks fairly simple.<br>How possible is that there would exist an open hardware clone given that firmware dumps already exist?

this PCB looks fairly simple.
How possible is that there would exist an open hardware clone given that firmware dumps already exist?


Don't forget the SD card support for people who <del>accidentally cut their programming pin hole on the wrong side of the shell</del> totally intended to cut a second hole for the SD card. 😋

Don't forget the SD card support for people who -accidentally cut their programming pin hole on the wrong side of the shell- totally intended to cut a second hole for the SD card. 😋


Hey dude. Just to be clear. I have no plans to do content on this. I'm just learning and having fun. Feel free to use any of my stuff from github. I'll have no hard feelings if you choose not to. It's totally up to you. The reason I put an MIT license on the repo is just to say 'no warranty.' As far as I'm concerned it is a 'do whatever the eff you want with it - license.'<br>-Jake

Hey dude. Just to be clear. I have no plans to do content on this. I'm just learning and having fun. Feel free to use any of my stuff from github. I'll have no hard feelings if you choose not to. It's totally up to you. The reason I put an MIT license on the repo is just to say 'no warranty.' As far as I'm concerned it is a 'do whatever the eff you want with it - license.'
-Jake


Any update on a more accessible version?


How about making a J2ME KVM for it so we can run all the old MIDlet games that used to run on the old cellphones? :)


What are the specs of this? I'm really curious?
I have a Nintendo DS  and  Nintendo 64  with homebrew and I know the specs of those  but, not of this?
How many megabytes of space? How much RAM?    How much  VRAM?

Check the first video, hardware is explained there


I want one with the gameboy game and watch series.


But can you emulate OG game & watch games?!<br>I wont be satisfied until theres a way to link these together, and play the 2 player  boxing game. That was the best game and watch.

But can you emulate OG game & watch games?!
I wont be satisfied until theres a way to link these together, and play the 2 player  boxing game. That was the best game and watch.


What's the reasoning behind porting your own NES emulator instead of just replacing the ROM on the existing one, and removing whatever alterations it makes to the ROM on the fly?

I do notice some weird flickering on the NES, like for SMB3.

Much easier to port (and legally far better) than to reverse engineer the integrated emu and then finding out it doesn’t support certain things etc


Please replace the spi flash with an sd card socket as Ben Heck did! that'll be a breeze for most people.


i dream one day nintendo change his mind and open the consoles... Also mario kart on pc please !


If only it were this easy to run homebrew on Nintendo's other 2020 handhelds! :P


Is this worth getting? I saw one for $50 on Amazon, how many nes roms can fit via this method? Also where do I get the ST debugger/cables?

well i can tell you that this is more of a device for messing around with making your own homebrew, the game and watch only has 1.1mb of flash memory on it so it could fit 1 bigger nes rom or around 10 smaller ones, and that's best case scenario. but if you still decide to go with it, a good source for the swd programmers is ebay, the j-link (the one he uses) is around 10 USD, but you can get a cheaper st-link knockoff (the orangeish yellowish one he shows off) for around 3usd, and the test clips (the one on the left in the video) are about 5-10 USD, while the soldering on wires approach is pretty much free if you strip some random cable for the wires, but its also harder to take off later if you want to.


Honestly, I just want to swap the Zelda 1 and 2 roms with Zelda ages and seasons roms on my loz game and watch


Nintendo could make so much money selling blank handhelds for ROM use. I know they don't like ROMs, but at least they could still make money off of them that way.


This advance very well

Next: Only plug and modify


Interesting but a little complicated for what I need :(


the only thing that would be worthwhile playing on this tiny thing, would be emulations of all of the original game and watches (minus the dual screen ones). which, honestly, would be really cool of nintendo themselves to release, but they'll never do that because they never do something actually cool like that. they totally should release one game and watch device that emulates as many of the originals as possible.

on top of that, this one shouldn't have had an emulation of Ball with mario on it. it SHOULD have had an emulation of the "super mario bros" game and watch, since it was for mario's 35th anniversary. the super mario bros game and watch game was probably one of the best of all game and watches and was actually pretty fun. WHY oh why they chose to do fricking BALL instead of that one. only the people at nintendo could ever explain.

the only thing that would be worthwhile playing on this tiny thing, would be emulations of all of the original game and watches (minus the dual screen ones). which, honestly, would be really cool of nintendo themselves to release, but they'll never do that because they never do something *actually* cool like that. they totally should release one game and watch device that emulates as many of the originals as possible.

on top of that, this one shouldn't have had an emulation of Ball with mario on it. it SHOULD have had an emulation of the "super mario bros" game and watch, since it was for mario's 35th anniversary. the super mario bros game and watch game was probably one of the best of all game and watches and was actually pretty fun. WHY oh why they chose to do fricking BALL instead of that one. only the people at nintendo could ever explain.


You can use the JTAG port to restore a firmware backup no matter what barring hardware damage, right? So no need to worry about bricks when messing with firmware?

Yup, as long as you don’t set read out protection to level 2 you’ll always be able to go back to the original firmware


I don't think it's worth hacking these little things, I rather just collect them 😊

It is cool to see how it's done tho, I recently got the Zelda one comes with three classic Zelda games and a game and watch game....so cute and it has a glowing triforce on the back it's pretty cool....been playing links awakening sadly it's the original not DX but still a good fun game...

I hope Nintendo releases a Metroid one or Donkey Kong 🙂🙂


Would love to use my works hot air station to upgrade ram in this bad boy


Hey i wrote nofrendo back in 1999 or so... this is super rad to see it on the new Game & Watch!


Game & Watch

NES Classics

My Favorite!

Game & Watch

NES Classics

My Favorite!


I'd homebrew my Game & Watch for sure, but the buttons are small and uncomfortable


I absolutely admire what is being done here but I can't help but wonder - why?

Clearly this is an extremely low key piece of hardware. I'm well aware that it was never really intended to do much more than play SMB1 and be something of a novelty that paid homage to the original device. I also understand that there are people in the world that love to take on projects like this for no other reason than because they can, to see what is possible but we all already know this device is so limited that it'll hit a wall soon enough - one that we probably saw 25-30 years or more ago in game development. So I ask the question again - why bother?

There are countless devices out there that will emulate old games. Why would anyone want to play SMB3 (or Doom) on this?

Or did I answer my own question - because why not/because people can?

I love to tinker with devices, it’s a hobby :) also this lets you apply and train a wide variety of skills etc


So will you make the repository be available on Windows at some point? Or do we have to wait for someone else to do it?<br>I only have Windows.

So will you make the repository be available on Windows at some point? Or do we have to wait for someone else to do it?
I only have Windows.

@alguien más ive found running ubuntu in virtualbox from within windows to be annoying, dual booting would be the way to go given that you are using uefi boot

You can also use a virtual machine with ubuntu

to the point where you should either A. downgrade to an older windows version (aka windows 7 with a bunch of security programs), or just use ubuntu/other linux distros

@stacksmashing true, but you have to admit modern windows has really been trashed by microsoft

It really doesn’t, it’s all about what you prefer etcpp

I don’t really use Windows, so I hope somebody else does it 😀


Oh man i am really excited to you increase the storage


It might be time to go grab a game and watch now.


$50 buck for a game & watch of today is 1000X cheaper then getting any of the original 1980 Game & Watch like Ball on ebay go for anywhere from $200, $400, $800 as much as $1000+ used.


You can't just soldier the points to the current or new USB C port, to make it a little cleaner?


Will it be able to handle gba? If so, is like a new micro gba


People do know that there have been emulation handhelds for a couple years that look essentially the same right?.

@stacksmashing I'm not denying that figuring out these exploits is fun.


How about the raspberry pi, isn't it also capable of speaking the SPI protocol?


Wait doesn't it already have a built-in NES emulator?


I would run the game and watch gallery games if I ever hacked mine.


would be be possible  to do via the usd=b port if replaced(since the lines are cut) and connected to those holes?


I want to put all the Game And Watch games on it to have an All In One G&W system


Jet Set Willy on the G&W would fulfill a nice prediction we made back in the day. 😊


Id be happy with just mario 1 2 Mario 2 USA and 3 on this unit


They should’ve included all 2D Mario games.


it costs almost 100$ in my country

more expensive than an used 3DS


2:14 Has there been any progress on that USB port mod?

I came to the comments to ask the same thing


Does the sness emulator stay on the gameboy after you remove the cable or do you need to import it again?

@infinite beats my bad my English is not that good

Ok a few things: its not an snes emulator but nes and this is not a gameboy but a game and watch. But to answer your question not unless you overwrite the original data on the 1mb data chip


Does anyone have a link to an official ST-Link programmer? I do not know what model to get. Thanks.


nintendo:they cant pirate or homebrew if they dont have an sd card or drive<br>nintendo hacking community:hehe homebrew got brr

nintendo:they cant pirate or homebrew if they dont have an sd card or drive
nintendo hacking community:hehe homebrew got brr


Does this imply that cheap st-link adapters actually won’t work?  Will they harm the device or just fail?  Asking for a friend ;)


Hi,

so if I want to buy an arm debug probe only for this project, what would you suggest? Is it possible to dump the flash with one of these clones, or is it impossible? I did only understand, that there are some disadvantages, but not if that stops me using it for the project, like:

https://www.amazon.de/dp/B07QBLNDPM
or
https://www.amazon.de/dp/B086TWZNMM

Thanks!

Tim

These will work fine, at least they did for me. I have been using these kind of probes with the G&W and the only issue is the reset line which is just an annoyance. It will still work. EDIT: However, they may not always work 100% reliably, glitch, cause random issues. An official ST-Link is better, or use a J-Link Edu Mini.


Dang... I ordered the cheap ST-Link V2 adapter some hours ago.  xD

@stacksmashing Yea i ordered tho dev board too. Merry Xmas to me. :)
May be the cheap one can be disassembled and connected to the USBc board as "internal debug tool".
Anyway... thanx for teaming up and creating such a great Xmas present!


Wow, need to be filled with all the retro lcd  black and white games


It looks like it can emulate NES, but the device doesn't seem to have a select button so it might not work for all games


2021: how to mod Game & Watch to use it as autopilot for any car


Is there a way to enable integer scaling?


how does the pause button work for games like zelda where you need to get to the menu?


so wait, im sorry if this is a dumb question but why did you need to port an NES emulator to the game and watch? why couldn't you use the built in NES emulator and just swap out the rom?


So they learn from the nes/snes mini.
But when they (NINTENDO)  were asembling the units how or when did they test the software or fix it in process?
Brake it a part for sw check or fix seems time consumming as faaaak.


Hi, have you seen the latest Ben Heck mod video? He talks of hypothetically  bypassing ROM chip via an SD hack. Is this possible?


I like how this things value is worthless until people start hackin' it. Lol.


Can’t wait to play Pokémon on the Game & Watch through the Game Boy emulator!


Dang it I just wanted to play mario 3 on my game and watch


Which model for the STM32 Nucleo-32 Development Board?


I hoped my school teached how to become like you...


Windows users: I'm a noob, is there a guide for windows?<br>stacksmashing: There isn't, but you can make it, you are welcom!

Windows users: I'm a noob, is there a guide for windows?
stacksmashing: There isn't, but you can make it, you are welcom!


Thanks to this video, I'm currently watching this YouTube video on my Game and Watch

/jk


Not a user friendly hack, being that it can only be through debug and no USB for data transfer, Id buy another unit and go through the effort as long as I could throw a NES/GB/GG emulator with a few games. Otherwise, you would be spending alot of time,effort and money to flash a single game or 2 on there.


I'll do this once I get the tools to do it. Broke is broke lol.


if that microcontroller supports USB 2.0 would it not be fairly easy to connect it to the data pins of the USB connector and get some kind of flashing working that way as well?

It still requires a hardware modification which raises the bar, but yeah you could probably do that. The USB pins are used for the LCD as well, that might be an issue. I haven't tried to use USB yet but it's worth trying out.There is a built in PHY that would give you FS, i.e. 12Mb/s. That's fast enough for this.


Unlike the NES Mini and SNES Mini, they've made it too difficult for the average user to hack this console. Also, it's not worth all this effort for a quite low powered machine such as this (probably can't run anything past SNES), and with extremely small storage as well. The controls aren't stellar, either, and the screen is very small even for NES games.  There are much better alternatives to this, even for less money. This is just a case of hacking because you can, not because it's really worth it.


Just an idea why not put a game and watch emulator on it to play the original game and watch titles?


question: i have "ST-Link V2 Programming Unit mini STM8 STM32 Emulator Downloader M89 Top ST" bought from ebay will this work? and how to excute scripts with it if so? also regarding the connection on the repo you mention "When connecting the debugger ensrue that at least SWDIO, SWDCLK and GND are connected" so what about the GND and VDD (are they not required to be connected ??? as i saw on your tweet you hock all the test clips to all the ports)


Scripts, ports, debugs.... I thought I was doing good in the late 90's. Fell off the boat and now everything is over my head. Arg.


plot twist: it can run super mario 64 and n64 games


Do you think of a way to bring up an additional storage to save a bundle of games at the same time? Could this even be possible?

@stacksmashing Thx I obivously missed that one. ... so looking forward how far you will go :D

As mentioned in the video we are experimenting with larger flash chips


I bought one of these for my son for Christmas ... but he doesn't know that.

Shiiiiiiit. I wish you were the dad i had growing up 😂


It's neat, but not really worth the effort in my opinion unless you're a developer that enjoys tinkering around with stuff like this


How about giving it a Game and Watch emulator? So you can play loads of Game and Watch titles on it. Would make a lot more sense than NES or gameboy games.

@stacksmashing Oh not qualified for that kinda stuff. Can barely hack my toaster. I was just suggesting a possible thing you skilled hackers could implement.

Go for it, everything you need should be linked :)


So how will this USB mod work exactly? Will I still need to open the device?


Cool, but I don’t want to tear mine apart


Nintendo: NOOO YOU JUST CAN'T HACK OUR CONSOLES! <br>Hackers: "The future is now old man"

Nintendo: NOOO YOU JUST CAN'T HACK OUR CONSOLES!
Hackers: "The future is now old man"


Where is the stl file for the 3d printed rear cover?


Once we get save states im all over it. I rather have zelda and contra than mario.


Nintedo should have put the 4 Mario games in there, I will definetly homebrew it if it gets achieved and do thar


Or you could buy a Anbernic RG280V from Amazon


Will it be possible to make the modded games take up the full-screen of the game and watch?

@stacksmashing should only need a 32 pixel black space on each side of screen for NES aspect ratio, no?

Yup, we are experimenting with different scalings


I know you said Mac or Linux only, but do you know if this will work with WSL in Windows 10?

@Erik Nilsson That's fine if it doesn't. I  have no problems with having to install Linux.

@stacksmashing Cool. I'll let you know once I get everything.

To be honest I have no clue whether OpenOCD will work in WSL - if you give it a try please let me know!


I may need to get a 2nd one to tinker like this. Hmm..


I thought the data port on the game and watch wasn't connected? That what another video as saying.
I'm really wanting to put the original drag quest games on here. One at time of course.
I wish someone would just make a raspberry Pi device that would fit inside of this so we could take out the current motherboard and just just replace it.
Using a SD card with this would be amazing!
Thanks for figuring all this out man :D

The data pins of the USB port are not connected :)


The funny thing is people got these because they were hoping to hack them. Unless the device can be hacked at some point by plugging into the USB most people won't so it. I do see a market for hardware modded Game and Watches. That and kits that don't require soldering skills.


Nintendo are NOT ALLOWED to release a NES Emulator according to the Gentleman's Agreement and also Licensing Deals. But like the early Nintendo DS, unofficial hacks are unofficially allowed.

Money Laundering, Bookcooking, Trade Quota, and so on. Also Secret Space Program disclosure censorship. The videogame industry is filled with Money Laundering, that is a Wii U game in Japan suddenly had a large sales despite the Wii U has been discontinued.

Also regional censorship (aka 'region lock'), materials from one area might not be viewed in another area. Akin of not allowing people to take photos of a military facility or military objects.

Unlike the Family Computer / Famicom / Nintendo Entertainment System series, the Game & Watch series fell under a different Accord, the same goes for the SuperMarionation, ahem, Super Mario Bros game.

Then there is the Dual Screen Game & Watch.


Now I know what I’m getting for Christmas.

@MegaMan X Oh man, there are some really cool stands. One has Mr. Game and Watch on both ends!

@Why? I think only NES games will work on this hardware. It's very limited according to the other 2 breakdowns he has done of it so far. It's basically a mini Nintendo with the screen and controller all in one unit. 😅

@MegaMan X I was just saying that since your profile name is “Mega Man X” and SNES and DOS are the only two consoles that can play X that I can somewhat see running on this.

@Why? Well actually I like the original look and programing of it. However, I'd totally gut an original Gameboy Advance for ROMs & such. The design on those looked about 5 years too late. 😅

@Why? For DosBox, there is no sufficient RAM 😑

@MegaMan X You must be excited for an SNES emulator to come out on this thing. (Or a DOS emulator, either one works)

It is a cool little handheld system. Etsy already has Famicom edition stands for it too. 😄


How many NES games could you fit in 1mb flash rom - about 5 right?


Is it posible to replace spi rom with micro SD card? Asking for a friend.


Nin should have made this easily hackable


Omg SMB3 on the game and watch?! How how how? Give me give me!


Nintendo must be having a fit.<br>The irony of pirated ROMs being played on their own hardware  :-)

Nintendo must be having a fit.
The irony of pirated ROMs being played on their own hardware  :-)

@Robin Browne Actually they did/tried that on the Wii & WiiU, but I don't think they sold those old games that much on there charging $5 a pop. The Nintendo Switch has now just bundled a lot of the NES & SNES games onto official emulators that you can play when you get a Nintendo Online subscription for $20 a year. So they're learning! 😅

@Mr. Peanut Agreed.  And Nintendo could even sell the ROM images for $5 for people who don't want to pirate.  But no.  Nintendo has stupid policies of getting butt-hurt about everything.


This is awesome . U got super Mario bros. 2 & 3


This is awesome! But isn't the firmware already sort of a NES emulator? Why would you need to port one yourself?

It should be possible, but maybe it's encrypted somehow right now. That's what I'm thinking too, maybe it's hard coded to 2 games + 1.


3:30 should probably say '(Y/n)' instead of '(Y/y)'


If is for only nes homebrew i prefer use an old DS


U could make a discord server for hacking the game and watch


I didn't even know people were Homebrewing this!


I found a much simpler hack, enter: UP, UP, DOWN, DOWN, B, A, START.


I'm waiting for sd card mod to this device


Are there any issues with any of the NES ROMs, other than no sound?


@stacksmashing are you using the model XKM-S?<br>Forgot to ask what size I need. :-)

@stacksmashing are you using the model XKM-S?
Forgot to ask what size I need. :-)

@stacksmashing thank you every much. I am going to use those and a Nucleo.


I don't mind opening it up. It's the soldering...

@AppendixBerlin Thanks a lot! Yeah, the "E-Z Hook" probes are pretty good - much much better than the super cheap ones!

@Furealz Luckilynx It's a debug probe, yes it's required

@stacksmashing Any specific test-clips you are recommending? Thank you for once again for this excellent work!!

@stacksmashing What are those? Is that usb stick required? I have a usb drive, but that stick looks different to me.


how's it going with the whole copyright claim thing?


One day all games will be streamed to such a cheapo device.


this will create a glitch in Nintendo's matrix, continue? (Y/y)


Ahh please let me pay you to mod my game and watch. !!! Please


next game and watch should be compatible with NES roms from the beginnging...


Me watching this and mot even owning a Mario bros game and watch.


Ah, homebrew makes Nintendo's junks better.


Why oh why for the love of all things nintendo...why doesnt this have the original game&watch super mario game on it 😥😥😥 missed a big trick there nintendo,could have doubled sales


I just got one of these for Christmas. Godspeed, Hackers....Godspeed.

Me too me too, ive been waiting about 32yrs to complete the original game and watch super mario, mine was stolen off me when i was young and ive never got round to replacing it, ive just been bought this new version for Christmas and im determined im gonna put the original one on this new machine, i used to hack/mod/chip back in the day when it was ALL soldering chips on the board etc 🤣 i got bored when it all became softmods


2:30 Finally! Some who pronounces Linux as "Lee knox" and not "Lee nix".


1:04 :O What the F, Europe?! Those age rating icons take up too much space, damn! Not cool.


Can we have super mario all stars working?


Now all nes games on special Game & Watch


@stacksmashing OpenOCD does interface SWD on RPI without usb programmer?

Bummer; RPI does program SWD on GPIO but NOT the "On-Chip Debugging" part


Be careful, Nintendo might take down your entire channel and burn down your house because they want you to play Super Mario Bros dammit


Who said this not worth 50 bucks ??? f**k o**........ Great job and thanks for this !!!


I have herd that their is not much flash storage in the game and watch. How many nes roms would even for on it?


Typical Nintendo! Why didn't they just make it already opened up for ROMs with a port and sd card and just sell it I little higher priced to make up for some of the loss. they surely know it was going to be hack fairly quickly anyways!


Waiting for new version game & watch DUAL SCREEN whit emulateur ?


Can't you just inject ROMs and use the official emulator?  Can't stand these half ass homebrew emulators like pocket nes and dsnes.  The end goal should be near perfect emulation of NES games on this device.  It has a classic NES D-pad and a true 4:3 aspect ratio for once.  It blows away the GBA and DS for NES emulation.  If possible, the ideal solution IMO is to allow for playing the ROM of your choice, using the official emulator.


What about ‘Hebrew’ on the Game and Watch. Install an English-Hebrew translator.


Is it possible to swap games without using the emulator? For example swap Mario Bros. 2 with Mario Bros. 3.


This shit alreqdy that got more homebrew support than the wii u will ever have


Super Mario Bros, is nothing compared to Super Mario Bros 3


not sure i understand why an nes emulator is being ported to the device when it clearly has an nes emulator built in

@stacksmashing ah yeah the start screen hot patch.  good point

Because the original emulator doesn't support a lot of ROMs & also does hot-patching which will break all other ROMs


I like how you block out the video like that makes a difference. Lol!

..because it did. They sent a copyright takedown before I blurred it.


This will destroy the universe. Continue? (Y/y)


If you can make me one with Rick Dangerous, Kung-fu and River City Ransom on it please contact me! I give good money! (No joke!)


just put the gameboy game and watch gallery games on there.


Pease "Contra force" in Nintendo Game & Watch.


KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK!! This is NINTENDO! SET OUR SYSTEM DOWN AND COME OUT WITH YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR!!

they will probably throw a Cease & Desist at some point, which in this case would be even dumber than usual.
No matter if you want it vanilla or hack it, you need to buy one (or more than one) and won't make a difference to their pockets. Most likely will increase sales quite a bit.
I don't care about the original product but i like the idea of moddind it so now i'm actually considering to buy one.


It would be cool to see a software way of getting homebrew on the switch lite, because the modchips tend to be quite hard to find sometimes


What's the point? The thing is incredibly uncomfortable to hold and play on. There's about a million other ways and devices to emulate games on.


Can i hack it wothout soldering and what i need for thats.


Now we can finally have a 7 Grand Dad Game and Watch!


Please do snake rattle n roll fof the mod


Ben Heck has already installed an SD Card slot and a connector so when someone finally does hack it that way its ready


Yea, there was a copyright complaint on the video that was resolved by blurring the screen contents :(


Why does he censor the screen all the time?


What’s homebrew, I don’t want to seem like an idiot I’m just curious is g<br>The ability to add extra games to it?

What’s homebrew, I don’t want to seem like an idiot I’m just curious is g
The ability to add extra games to it?

No worries :) Homebrew is the ability to add community/self-developed software to it - so basically being able to program custom games etc. for it.


Alguien de habla hispana que me diga si va el pirateo viento en popa? Por qué no me entero de nada 🤔


Fascinating. But why is there is a giant censor bubble in the middle?

Nintendo Copyright claimed the video without blur


Downvoted for the BLUR. Just show a generic game if you're worried about Copyright FFS.

Same with the Yuzu videos that get taken down for copyright. They wouldn't be able to be removed if they showed third party games instead of the typical Mario/Zelda titles.


Hi , can I get a heart? <br>Awesome as always ♥

Hi , can I get a heart?
Awesome as always ♥


🇲 🇪 🇹 🇷 🇴 🇮 🇩   NES please

🇲 🇪 🇹 🇷 🇴 🇮 🇩   NES please


Nice over 60% of the screen is blurred for 90% of the time.

@stacksmashing answered after a minute wtf xd . I tried to check the very first comments and the description and couldn't find anything :s

Because there was a copyright takedown otherwise -.-


Why is more small mario3 than mario1??? Whide screen


why censored. we wna see the awesome skills u did


in the old saying in the Harry Potter days: “they’ll have your wands for this”


I want to hack it to have popeye on it but I have no education in hacking


the thing that all the gaming thieves have been waiting for


Isn’t this illegal? I read the owners manual but I’m not sure

@Dad why do you care what Nintendo wants you to do?

reason is but they don’t want you to do this anyways

Trust me, Nintendo will not track you down for this


While it's definitely interesting, you'd probably do better to just get one of those 80 buck handhelds. You'll have a lot more ease and freedom.


Why? Just use ur 3ds which is bigger and superior.


You are a beautiful man and I love you ❤


@electronman32k I posted this half a year ago

Well yeh considering the cheap arm CPU on the board has to handle literally everything as it has no dedicated graphics hardware for crazy stuff


Where are you from???<br>Your voice kinda sounds like a german guy

Where are you from???
Your voice kinda sounds like a german guy


WHY THE FUCK ARE THE SCRIPTS ON MAC AND NOT WINDOWS WTF ITS ALWAYS WINDOWS FIRST


When it wasn’t blurred Nintendo took down his videos for copyright


Yeah, Ill come back when we've got something that doesn't require soldering.


@NCHLT Because copyright. Nintendo is a bitch when it comes to copyright.

Because the creator doesn't know the law or something (I do)


The buttons just kill it for me, too squishy.

I find the buttons nearly identical to the original, just smaller.


Bringing homebrew to the Nintendo Game & Watch


@stacksmashing Which has nothing about this...


Gotta get something out of burning £50 amirite


Nobody’s gonna do this too many parts and tinkering just make a software or something nobody’s reasonably gonna do all this when they can just buy a retro pi or just use browser emulators on their phones


It’s doable. We have a WIP emulator running. Lots of work left until it’s a great user experience, but it’s definitely doable.


Cool video but can you make one on how to install GTA V step by step?


Sorry, but you're saying that's posible port this console to windows?


Bruh hack the Type C so I don't have to open up the unit

@Vin EuroDiesel Dead in the water. I bought the device hoping to hack it but it's far too in depth for me

that is physically impossible. to do this you need to write directly to the flash memory on the cpu, the usb c port isn't connected to the cpu.

I don't understand why you can't use a secondary board to aid the Type C and inject ROMs/software via the Type C


Sorry too complicated...do you think we will ever be able to add ROMs without buying all this stuff? if not I'm gonna sell this and buy a retroid mini. appreciate all your efforts though.

one day you might be able to make the usb c port actually connect to the cpu, best case scenario that will require a separate pcb to be soldered in to microscopic solder points. sorry man but this thing is never gonna be a simple hack.


already have all those games on my little phone<br>NES/SNES/GENESIS/GameGear/MegaDrive/GB/GBC/GBA/NDS/3DS/PS1/PS2/GC/Wii/Atari2600/AtariJaguar/SATURN why i should use Nintendo Game & Watch for emu O.o?!

already have all those games on my little phone
NES/SNES/GENESIS/GameGear/MegaDrive/GB/GBC/GBA/NDS/3DS/PS1/PS2/GC/Wii/Atari2600/AtariJaguar/SATURN why i should use Nintendo Game & Watch for emu O.o?!

Novelty.<br>In fact the whole thing is basically just novelty. You can have a clock, a G&W emulator and an NES emulator on your phone and it'll be basically the same thing.

Novelty.
In fact the whole thing is basically just novelty. You can have a clock, a G&W emulator and an NES emulator on your phone and it'll be basically the same thing.


If it has USB, it can be hacked in a few days

"The USB port is physically not connected to the processor"